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Abstract

Rehabilitation is very important in posttraumatic status injury of the knee. Because the knee has an important role in gait, it is important to have an early and safe recovery. Physical therapy helps to maintain the muscle power and joint range and get back to the normal life as early as possible. The proprioception can be regained only by proper physiotherapy.

We are dealing with two studies regarding the posttraumatic knee rehabilitation.

Material and method - First study was made on 5 students at the University of Oradea, all men, two of them after surgery bya K. Jones technique and three patients after surgery by Clancy technique. In order to have an eficient rehabilitation, Campbell Clinic (SUA) andShelbourne şi Nitz clinic rehabilitation protocol for ACL surgery was applied. In order to observe rehabilitation protocol’s eficiency, we compared the baseline and final scores for the following aspects of posttraumatic knee: instability, pain, edema, ROM, hydrartrosis, Lachman test, seratus anterior test, pivot Schift test, SC Lisholm and C. Nozes.

The second study is a case study of a 20 years old male, student at the University of Oradea, with right knee internal meniscus lesion and surgery in 2004 and left knee internal meniscus lezion with surgery in, 2005. For rehabiltation were used FNP techniques, Freeman metod, spiral dinamics concept on physioball and elements from „ladiţa Zoli” technique.

In the second study, all assessed parameters improved after the complex global physical therapy program ( technicsspecific for “the knee four facets”).

Conclusions - Active physical therapy of knee four facets muscle has an important role in posttraumatic knee rehabilitatin process, fact demonstrated by presented studies - evidence base practice. The more surgery moment is far away, the more physical therapy is indispensable.